Corps Franconia Würzburg

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Corps Franconia Würzburg
coat of arms
country
University
Foundation, endowment
SC
tape
Motto
Fortuna virtutis comes!
Heraldic motto
Ensis sit noster vindex!
Corporation association
address
Judenbühlweg 7
97070 Würzburg
Website

The Corps Franconia Würzburg is a student association in the Würzburg Senior Citizens' Convention . As a corps in the Kösener Senioren-Convents-Verband (KSCV), Franconia stands for scale and color . The "Würzburger Francs" (as the name is given) are basically students and alumni of the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg and the University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt .

Color and motto

The student union has the colors apple-green-peach-red with golden percussion , with the members wearing an apple-green student hat . The fox colors are apple green and white. The motto is Fortuna virtutis comes! The emblem is Ensis sit noster vindex! . Until 1873, the band was worn over the left shoulder - unlike usual.

history

Today's Corps Franconia was founded on July 26, 1805 as the Franconian Landsmannschaft by the students Laurentius Bartenstein and Christoph Stepf at the University of Würzburg. The connection is therefore considered to be one of the oldest still existing corps. The student union probably emerged from the older "Germania", which was first reliably proven in 1803 and also had mostly students from Franconia. In the early years, a maximum of 12 corps boys were allowed to belong to the association, which in 1811 prompted members not admitted to the reception to leave. Parts of them were later involved in the establishment of the Corps Moenania Würzburg . Renoncenes that were not reciprocated became renoncenphilisters after the end of their studies; after giving up the numerus clausus in 1873, they were awarded the corps ribbon. Members were also involved in the foundation of the Corps Franconia Tübingen , with which a cartel existed from 1826 to 1855.

By royal decree of July 31, 1827, the Bavarian government promised tolerance to all student associations who submit their statutes and membership lists. Franconia received official approval on August 14, 1828. However, due to a lack of suitable members, it was suspended from 1835 to 1845. After the reconstitution in 1845, she had to come back for the ministerial approval, which was granted on August 28, 1846.

During the revolution in 1848 , the active members of the Franconia were organized in the student army , which was used to maintain public order. Together with “ Mainländer ” and “ Nassauern ” they formed a company. On May 18, 1849, soldiers of the 12th Infantry Regiment stationed in Würzburg and some Chevaulegers stormed the Frankenkneipe in L. Bauch's brewery on the corner of Neubaustraße and Schönthalstraße. A general student assembly then demanded satisfaction . When two other students (members of the Corps Bavaria) were injured by soldiers, the student body unanimously decided to move to Wertheim , in which, with the exception of the theologians, almost all students of the university took part. The senior citizen of Franconia, August Koeth, was one of the spokesmen. Only after the 12th Infantry Regiment had been transferred from Würzburg did they return to the university town on May 25th.

On February 15, 1859, Franconia and Rhenania, as the only corps in the Würzburg Seniors 'Convent at the time, decided to join the Kösener Seniors' Convents Association (KSCV), but in the 1860s they tried, in association with Moenania, to create their own association of the southern German life corps . The project failed due to resistance from the corps of other Bavarian university towns. In 1873, the previous Franconia life corps was finally converted into a weapons corps, thereby allowing its members to join other corps at the same time. Franconia is one of the co-founders of the Bavarian cartel between the Corps Franconia Würzburg, Bavaria Erlangen and Makaria Munich, which was expanded with Athesia Innsbruck, Joannea Graz and Schacht Leoben in 1920 to form the southern German cartel that still exists today . Littuania Königsberg and Borussia Berlin joined later.

In the face of increasing repression by the Nazi state , Franconia stopped active operations in 1936. From 1938 onwards, the old men partially supported the comradeship Albrecht the Bear , which had its seat in the house of the "Nassauer".

In 1950 the corps was officially restituted and resumed active operations. In 1985 Franconia was the presiding suburban corps in the KSCV and appointed the chairman of the oKC.

Corp houses

In 1905 the Corps bought the Ostberg'sche Villa on Sonnenstrasse and converted it into a corp house . On March 16, 1945 it was damaged in an Allied bombing raid on Würzburg . In its place, the old owners acquired the Villa Marbe , built in 1932 in the Bauhaus style, in 1953 and also converted it into a corp house.

  • Former corp house on Sonnenstrasse

  • Today's corp house from Judenbühlweg

  • Today's corp house from Mergentheimer Strasse

Relative Corps

Cartels

Conceptual relationships

Known members (selection)

Holder of the Klinggräff Medal

The Klinggräff Medal of the Stifterverein Alter Corpsstudenten was awarded to:

  • F. Ludwig (1996)
  • D. Böhler (2015)

literature

  • Rolf-Joachim Baum et al. (Ed.): Student Union and Corporations at the University of Würzburg 1582–1982. , Würzburg 1982, pp. 233-235.
  • Henning Wachter: The district and relationship policy of the Corps Franconia zu Würzburg in the KSCV using the example of the South German cartel (1873-1924) . In: then and now. Yearbook of the Association for Corporate Student History Research, Vol. 59 (2014), pp. 475–571.
  • Robert Maurmeister: The Franconia Corps in Würzburg. A look back at 100 years of its existence , Munich 1905

Web links

Commons : Corps Franconia Würzburg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ dt. Happiness is the companion of male honor
  2. ↑ Eng. "Let the sword be our protection"
  3. ^ Hermann Leupold: The Franconian Landsmannschaft and the "Society of the West Franconia" (Germania - Franconia - Moenania). Contribution to the history of Franconia zu Würzburg and Würzburger SC . In: then and now. Yearbook of the Association for Corporate Student History Research 37 (1992), p. 125.
  4. ^ A. Beck: Student associations in Würzburg at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century . In: Archive for Student and University History, Issue 2 (June 1933), p. 64.
  5. ^ Georg Meyer-Erlach : The guarantee of the Würzburg student societies . In: Archive for Student and University History, Issue 1 (March 1933), p. 3.
  6. ^ Georg Meyer-Erlach : The guarantee of the Würzburg student societies . In: Archive for Student and University History, Issue 1 (March 1933), p. 18.
  7. ^ The departure of the Würzburg students to Wertheim in 1849 . In: Archive for Student and University History, Issue 3 (September 1933), pp. 95-109.
  8. ^ Rolf-Joachim Baum: From two centuries of Würzburger SC history - compiled for the 400th anniversary of Alma Julia . In: then and now. Yearbook of the Association for Corporate Student History Research 28 (1983), p. 38.
  9. ↑ Michael Doeberl (Ed.): Das akademische Deutschland , Vol. 2: The German universities and their academic citizens , Berlin 1931, p. 1069.
  10. ↑ Erich Bauer: The comradeships in the area of ​​the Kösener SC in the years 1937-1945 . In: then and now. Yearbook of the Association for Corporate Student History Research 1 (1956), p. 36.
  11. ^ Ernst Hans Eberhard : Handbook of the student liaison system. Leipzig, 1924/25, p. 114.
  12. Jump up ↑ Peter Engel: Professors from Corps Franconia: Adam Kaspar Hesselbach, Johann Baptist Friedreich, Philipp Wilhelm, Georg Ludwig Ditterich, Julius Dreschfeld. In: Frankenzeitung. Volume 42, 1966, pp. 15-18.
  13. Jump up ↑ Peter Engel: Professors from Corps Franconia: Adam Kaspar Hesselbach, Johann Baptist Friedreich, Philipp Wilhelm, Georg Ludwig Ditterich, Julius Dreschfeld. In: Frankenzeitung. Volume 42, 1966, pp. 15-18.
  14. ↑ See for example Walter M. Brod: Michael Schmerbach Franconiae Würzburg, an eternal student and yet a great talent. In: then and now. Volume 8, 1963, pp. 125-138.